Executive Secretary Ermita: “Pag ang aso, di mo sinipa, di kakagat.”
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29
Sep
Apathy = Damnation
People still don’t get it. People still has wrong priorities. People still look after their own interests.
Apathy shall bring us all down.
Churchill once said to Chamberlain: “You are given the choice of dishonor or war. You chose dishonor and you will have war.”
Paraphrase: You are given the choice of looking after your interests or damnation. You have chosen to look after your interests and you will be damned.
Tsk tsk.
25
Sep
Light weekend fare
We are in for another week of stress, so let’s have some light entries.
Here is the Wikipedia entry for the Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, (Joshua) Norton the First
My brother gave this to me weeks ago, but it is only now that I get to post it (as I keep on forgetting)
(sing to the tune of Hale’s The Day You Said Goodnight)
Tobey, the flying tutubi,
Sumabit sa elisi,
Nahulog sa may mami.
Mami, kinain ni (fill in, any name as long as it has 3 syllables and rhymes with elisi)
Ginawang sahog si Tobey.
That’s it! Enjoy the rest of the weekend.
24
Sep
Killing the Bill of Rights
After effectively banning street protests, what’s next? Censoring news reports inimical to GMA?
There are 19 rights listed in Article III of the 1987 Constitution. Right number 5, freedom of suffrage, well, just say “Hello, Garci”. The current news, that of calibrated whatever, kills number 13, the right to take part in peaceable assembly. They even violated number 9, the right to be secure in one’s person, house, papers, and effects. Need I mention a case?
Read this. This lists down the 19 rights plus annotations.
22
Sep
Memo to Norberto
That’s what you get from lying – a high blood pressure and a drop in your blood sugar level. If a lie detector test is strapped to you, it would have sounded like a fire alarm.
It’s a sin to tell a lie.
21
Sep
Phishing emails – A working example
Phishing is an attempt to fool a user to disclose confidential information like user names, account numbers, and passwords. It can be done through several means, like sending an email informing a user that his account will expire. Others do this by spoofing the login page of a certain Web site.
The following examples are phishing emails that dropped in on my mailbox.
Continue reading
13
Sep
Haydee Yorac, 64
Haydee Yorac
September 12, 2005, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Professor, UP College of Law
Commissioner, Commission on Elections
Chair, National Unification Commission
Chair, Presidential Commission on Good Government
Awardee, Ramon Magsaysay Award for Government Service, 2004
In memoriam
11
Sep
History repeats itself
To sum it up, the Revolution failed because it was badly led; because its leader won his post by reprehensible rather than meritorious acts; because instead of supporting the men most useful to the people, he made them useless out of jealousy. Identifying the aggrandizement of the people with his own, he judged the worth of men not by their ability, character and patriotism but rather by their degree of friendship and kinship with him; and anxious to secure the readiness of his favorites to sacrifice themselves for him, he was tolerant even of their transgressions. Because he thus neglected the people forsook him; and forsaken by the people, he was bound to fall like a waxen idol melting in the heat of adversity. God grant we do not forget such a terrible lesson, learnt at the cost of untold suffering.
– Apolinario Mabini, The Philippine Revolution, Chapter X (translated by Leon Ma. Guerrero)
This was also quoted in La Vida Lawyer’s blog
11
Sep
Firefox Link Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
A bug in the way Firefox handles long links with dashes has been reported. The official MozillaZine article together with the link to a patch is here.
Firefox users should update their browsers.